Today at MWC, Sony announced four new connected gadgets which it hopes will let people look up from their phone screens more and engage the world around them. The products include a bluetooth earpiece, a wearable camera, a vertical projector, and a friendly robot, which are respectively called the Xperia Ear, Xperia Eye, Xperia Projector, and Xperia Agent.

Three of those products are actually just concepts: only the Xperia Ear has an expected launch date, and it won't come out until later this summer. The remaining products — the Eye, Projector, and Agent — are nowhere to be seen here at MWC and it will likely take some time for them to get to market, if they do at all. For now, all we have about them is a wishful concept video, the kind you might find on an Indiegogo flex-funding campaign.

The demo video shows the Xperia Ear sending and reading out text messages via voice commands, with presumably several other actions in the works too. The Xperia Eye is a sort of clip-on camera that would enable the wearer to take photos without even having to press any button. It also feels slightly creepy.

The Xperia Projector might potentially be one of the more useful gadgets, and would let users project and interact with images on a flat surface such as a wall or table. Finally, the Xperia Agent is a tiny robot which greets its owners as they walk through the door. It may or may not end up working something like Amazon's Echo, but we'll have to wait for Sony to reveal more concrete plans.

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Svnjay

It's so bad to announce concept devices! /s

Ali Alslaman

Someone need to go to Sony HQ in Japan and bitch slap thier mobile division manager. They need to wake up before it is too late.

someone755

It's not the division manager that's to blame for most of this shit -- if you look at almost everything bad that's happened to Xperias it's obvious the command came from somewhere above.

Dave

What do you mean?! They showed off devices (or didn't even show them in case of the X Performance) that will be available in a very small amout of time! I mean, what are four month in the smarphone market if not only a litte more than a hearbeat! Seems perfectly fine to me! /s

muhkuhap

How about they'd announce Marshmallow for Z5 series?..

mlj11

That promo video is a glimpse into the future...

When humans have all been replaced by stiff and awkward impostor robots.

Thomas

They are called synths!

Ali Alslaman

What's up with Sony and their half ass attitude. Thier new phones is available after 4 months . Thier new stuff available when who knows.
They repeat the same mistake they did last year when they announce the Z4 tablet and they made it available after a freaking 6 months. I was waiting for that tablet and I got impatient and just got an iPad air 2.

That camera would be amazing as an dashboard cam. Just a bit of chewed gum and boom, you've fixed it into your car dashboard. Also think about a 'security' camera for ciclysts. Or runners. Its small, discrete... fits perfectly to me. But yes, it could also be used to very invasive stuff.

Charles

"let people look up from their phone screens more and engage the world around them"
Thus missing the whole point of having a phone in the first place. :P

switchblade_bravado

You never know what you are going to get with Sony. It seems their mobile strategy is all over the place. I scratch my head at showing phones that will be available in the summer, which could be 4 - 6 months, and additional "X" amount of time before it gets to the US, as seen with the Z5, sans fingerprint reader. I try to champion Sony, as I think they make great hardware, but they make it really, really difficult.

thiazzi

Do they make great hardware? It has always been far too expensive for me to experience.

Frank Wisper

The Xperia Projector isn't a new thing. I saw it at IFA last year in Berlin/Germany.
There was already a working demo on a table. What has happened since?

Dastardly

No Xperia Ass? C'mon Sony what gives? You just missed on bagging high profile customers like Kim Kardashian and Nicki Minaj.